This report on Regional Scenario Modeling, completed by Malinda Ford of the Piedmont Triad Regional Council, offers multiple growth scenarios for the Piedmont Triad and delves into potential futures for the region.

The purpose of this report is to provide stakeholders the factual foundation necessary to engage in a well-informed, on-going dialogue about a path to inclusive and sustainable economic growth. Building economic prosperity and resilience for everyone in our region requires a wide ranging set of approaches, spearheaded and sustained by numerous stakeholders representing a broad range of interests from throughout our region. Collaboration across organizations and sectors will ensure and sustain robust, opportunity-rich communities.

The Piedmont Together project team has generated goals, objectives, and strategies for each of the project's five main focus areas of housing, jobs, transportation, health, and places & spaces. The full set of recommendations and supporting research will be presented at the Framework for Prosperity summit on March 27, 2014 in downtown Greensboro. Register now to be one of the first to see the plan in its entirety.

Over the past three years Piedmont Together has undertaken a wide variety and number of public outreach and engagement events to ensure that residents' voices were heard and incorporated into the resulting comprehensive regional plan. This report summarizes those activities and presents a sampling of input received.

To understand how different development patterns will affect our future, Piedmont Together used CommunityViz software to show where new homes and jobs might go based on existing trends and then under several alternative growth scenarios. This allows us to compare alternatives to our current way of growing. Each scenario uses the same 2040 allocation of jobs and houses per county. Their distribution changes based on the goals and policies assumed in each alternative.